Major financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and central banks have thrown their weight behind a Swift initiative to prevent further fragmentation of the ISO 20022 messaging standard as its adoption grows by signing a charter backing principles to harmonise implementations.
The recent surge of mobile payments services including Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay is impressive, but what’s more significant is that payments-enabled mobile devices are on track to expand tenfold over the next five years, creating major challenges and opportunities for developers of consumer digital wallets, said Matt Barr, MasterCard’s group head, North America, emerging payments, speaking at this week’s NFC Solutions Summit in Phoenix.
There’s never a good time for a data breach, but yesterday it was reported that LoopPay, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., suffered an attack on its network.
The yeas have it. The European Parliament today has passed the second major payments regulation in 2015, with 578 votes in favor of the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
Steve Harvey will be promoting all products issued by Green Dot Bank as part of a multiyear marketing partnership, Green Dot announced today.
Two McDonald’s franchise owners have appealed a judge’s refusal to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging they illegally mandated employees be paid via prepaid cards.
The Payments Market Practice Group has endorsed the use of Swift messages for intraday liquidity reporting. The Swift message set for intraday liquidity reporting underpins a rulebook created by the Liquidity Implementation Task Force, an industry group of twenty five large clearing banks, custodian banks and global brokers, to support compliance with Basel Committee on Banking Supervision requirements.
Deutsche Bank’s Research unit is launching a new set of proprietary foreign exchange positioning indices based on data from its Autobahn FX trading platform. Called Corax – Categorised ORderflow from Autobahn FX – the indices will be published every Wednesday in the Corax Positioning Report.
The convergence of mobile payments and commerce will be the payoff for merchants investing in m-payments technology, but the payments industry has a lot of work ahead to help marry payments with the shopping experience to enrich consumers’ experiences, Phil Kumnick, senior vice president of global acquirer processing for Visa Inc., told attendees today at the NFC Solutions Summit in Phoenix.
Prior to today’s field hearing in Denver, the CFPB has announced it’s considering proposing rules that would restrict consumer financial companies from using certain types of arbitration clauses that block consumers from forming class action lawsuits to obtain compensation.
Europe’s top court has struck down a longstanding agreement that enabled U.S. companies to handle the personal data of users in the European Union without being subjected to EU privacy rules, in a decision that will significantly affect not only tech giants like Google and Facebook, but payments and financial services companies, as well.
Thomson Reuters has launched an app studio for its Eikon financial desktop, which will allow third-party developers to create create apps that display as native applications on the Eikon screen, distributing them directly to Eikon users.
The controversial prospect of new regulations for arbitration agreements will be front and center during a CFPB field hearing on the matter tomorrow morning in Denver.
Mobile payments’ drive into the fuel station sector continues, with Visa Inc. announcing a new NFC pilot at more than 20 Chevron stations around San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
The rise of mobile and contactless payments technology caused non-cash payment volumes to soar last year, surpassing the growth rate of GDP in all worldwide regions, according to a new report from Capgemini and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
EBA Clearing, a bank-owned provider of European payment infrastructure solutions, this week announced an RFP to build the framework for a pan-European service that could support real-time payments within the next two years.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are building a reference data utility with SmartStream, which they say will provide data normalisation and validation for all asset classes. The project aims to reduce costs for consumers of data in capital markets by economies of scale.
Mobile payments development has exploded with the arrival of Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay, but it will take “organic demand” from consumers to drive broad adoption of mobile wallets, according to payments experts speaking at PayThink last week in Las Vegas.
Employers need to “step up their gifting game” with the holiday season approaching, according to the latest research from Gyft. The First Data company released the findings to coincide with its launch of a B2B bulk gift card purchasing program, enabling businesses to conveniently reward their employees with gift cards from more than 200 retailers.
Emerging payments and fintech continue to draw investment dollars. Dutch payments processor Adyen has landed financing from a fund comprised of some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, while alternative financing startup SoFi pulled in $1 billion in what the company is calling the biggest fintech investment to date. Meanwhile, mobile money transfer kept up its hot streak as Sequoia Capital got in on the ground floor of an India-based P2P app.
As banks increasingly digitalise and provide mobile services to user’s mobile devices they face the double-whammy of having to test software that has to run on multiple environments and doing it in an increasingly short time-scales as continuous release development cycles become the norm.
Although it may not be as large as analysts initially predicted, First Data Corp.’s IPO could be the largest public offering of 2015.
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Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) and more than 40 other lawmakers are urging CFPB Director Richard Cordray to be cautious in prepaid rulemaking and to make sure the government Direct Express program is not adversely affected by the forthcoming rule.
Payments processor First Data has appointed Himanshu Patel chief financial officer.
The CFPB has appointed new consumer finance experts from outside the federal government to the Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council and Credit Union Advisory Council.
Digital payments security provider Gemalto has won the Juniper Research 2015 Award for Digital Payments for its Allynis Trusted Services Hub.
Kerv, a London-based fintech startup, has announced that David Hunter has been appointed chairman of its board of directors.
NXT-ID Inc., a biometrics authentication company focused on mobile commerce, announced that William Fields has joined its advisory board.
Payveris LLC, a digital payments company serving banks and credit unions across the U.S., has hired Ted Chaney as senior vice president, strategic alliances.
Brian Brunner has joined the board of directors of PeoplesBank, Codorus Valley Company.
Financial innovation firm R3 announced that an additional 13 of the world’s leading banks have joined its partnership to design and apply distributed ledger technologies to global financial markets.
Hervé Pierre, embedded software and products senior director, strategy, at Gemalto, has been reelected as chairman of SIMalliance throughout the 2015-16 term.
Eileen Burbidge, founding partner at venture capital firm Passion Capital, has been appointed the chair of Tech City UK, a publicly funded, nonprofit group launched in 2010 by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to support the East London tech cluster known as Silicon Roundabout.
Jeffrey W. Jones has been named president of U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems, which helps organizations reduce payment costs and improve efficiencies through the use of travel, purchasing, fleet and aviation cards, as well as virtual accounts and other payment products.
YapStone, a global provider of Web and mobile payments technology solutions for large vertical markets and online marketplaces, has appointed Bryan Murphy president.
Green Dot Corp. sees continued strong demand for the mobile features of its iconic prepaid card and its GoBank checking account. And though the company hasn’t embraced Apple Pay or Android Pay, adding mobile payments access is on the company’s horizon, Steve Streit, Green Dot’s CEO, told attendees at PayThink in Las Vegas today.
London-based fintech startup Kerv has turned to crowd-funding site Kickstarter to raise mass-production capital to enter the field of wearables with an NFC-enabled ring that allows consumers to make contactless payments. The Kickstarter campaign launched Friday in an effort to raise nearly $117,000 and as of this morning, the company already has raised more than $52,000.
Voice-based user authentication systems are vulnerable to “voice impersonation attacks,” where criminals gain access to a sample of a user’s voice and use that sample to build a model of the user’s speech pattern with voice-morphing software, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers say.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and its affiliate Ant Financial announced today an agreement with India’s One97 Communications Ltd. to invest in Paytm, an m-commerce platform and One97 subsidiary. The capital infusion will enable Paytm to achieve greater scale and develop its m-commerce and payment ecosystem in India and invest in marketing, technology and personnel. The companies did not disclose specifics of the deal, however it’s believed the investment is worth approximately $600 million.
